If you’re still dragging your mouse just to pause or rewind, you’re bleeding seconds of your life. And seconds add up. Hours gone - not from watching videos, but from using YouTube the slow way. Here’s the secret: hit SHIFT + ? That opens YouTube’s hidden shortcut menu.

I’ve been posting on LinkedIn for the past two years. When I tried to move some of my best posts to this site, I hit a roadblock. LinkedIn doesn’t show the original publishing date for older posts. For content creators, recruiters, and researchers, this is a real pain.

In celebration of World Photography Day 2025, the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad (UoH), organized a campus-wide photography contest for all photography lovers. It ended with a vibrant photo exhibition on campus from August 19–23. I submitted one of the most ridiculous memories from 2019 - our all-night

A small story from my last flight. The plane had just landed. The guy two rows ahead of me shut his book. Slipped it into his bag. I only caught a one-second glimpse. Yellowish-orange cover. Bold black letters in ALL CAPS. Two rows. Short words. Something like: DO / DON’T

Here’s a hidden Android trick that cleaned up my messy gallery - without deleting a single file. I’m a screenshot person. The fastest way for me to save something is a quick 45-degree swipe to screenshot. I use it for everything. It helps me avoid the context switch

GPT-5 I’d call it a Mixed-Fruit Jam. Because right now, OpenAI is losing ~$2.25 for every $1 they earn. Unit economics? Broken. So they’ve reached for an old playbook - the Free Candy strategy: Hand out incredible features for cheap or free, make you dependent. Slowly fence

Some designs are so good, they last decades. Others are so good… they vanish. Think of the manual transmission in cars, Vim in coding, or tiling window managers on Linux. They have a learning curve, yes - but once you’ve mastered them, they’re faster, cleaner, and more precise

With older LLMs, prompts were like precise commands to a stubborn child. But modern models, like the new GPT-4o, behave more like collaborators. They work better when given them: The why (background) The how (examples) The goal (framing) Why the shift? The expanded context window (128K+ tokens) allows deeper understanding.

JPEG didn’t start as the Internet’s favorite. In the early days, NCSA Mosaic - one of the first web browsers - only supported GIFs. But by 1995, JPEG slipped into Netscape… and never looked back. So, why did that happen? Because it aged gracefully. Unlike GIFs, which fall

For years, I thought I had to collect every fact, every note, every detail - just in case. But no matter how much I stored, I still felt overwhelmed. Always behind. Until I realized: “I was storing everything. But I never had time to actually use it.” Output doesn'

I found an interesting GitHub repo while browsing online. It hosts a book with this tagline: "We built machines to think like us. In doing so, we finally learned how we think.” The credits caught my attention: Authors: Claude Code and Claude Opus 4 Concept & Creative Direction: Jay

Pocket, my go-to bookmarking app, shuts down on July 8, 2025. After that, you’ll have until October 8 to export your saves. Then it’s gone. Forever. For some, Pocket was just another app. But for me, it meant something more. I still remember how I started: I dumped

Everyone’s cool with “an eye for an eye” - until the eye is theirs. I still tell myself: "I won’t become the monster that made me bleed.” But sometimes, peace is only possible when it's backed by power. Real power. The kind that makes your

What was the world’s first commercially successful personal computer? It wasn’t Apple. Not Commodore. Definitely not Radio Shack. It was the MITS Altair 8800, launched in 1975 and powered by the Intel 8080 CPU. No keyboard. No screen. Just toggle switches, blinking LEDs, and 256 bytes of RAM

You enter Decathlon to buy gym gloves. Just gloves. Next thing you know, you’re walking out with a yoga mat, hiking shoes, resistance bands, and a ₹799 water bottle with a built-in compass. Still no gloves. That’s the Gruen Transfer - the phenomenon where your brain forgets why

Yes, we all know that good old classic game. Can it run inside a PDF? Not streamed. Not embedded. Actually running inside a PDF file. Get the PDF from this link. Try it out for yourself. How is this even possible? It uses old-school C code, compiled with an ancient

There should be one. Preferably, one obvious way to do it. You can reinvent yourself every six months. Rewrite your identity. Change careers. Move cities. But deep down, you know: That one habit you’ve been avoiding. That one hard conversation you keep postponing. That one #include you should’ve

Dairy Milk: It’s all about romance - love, relationships, and those fancy Silk chocolates wrapped in dreamy packaging. Perfect for the “how far will you go for love?” crowd. Then there’s 5 Star: Its entire vibe is doing nothing. No frills, no roses, just a bold, laid-back chocolate

Random sunny day. My Brain: Ctrl + C = Copy (duh, "C" for Copy, makes sense). Ctrl + V = Paste... but wait, why "V"?! Hmm, “P” would be perfect for Paste, but Nooo.., it’s stolen by Print. Ok, then why “V”? “V” is for Vendetta — cool, but probably

When it came to team outings, I was always the Resort guy—fresh air, blue skies, and the joy of spending a day out in the open. As usual, the vote happened. And guess what? We, the resort squad, lost—by just one vote. Instead of the open skies, we

Reliability in its purest form? The Casio India fx-991ES PLUS. I got to see this guy again last week, after a long break and wow - so many memories came flooding back. It wasn’t just a calculator. It was: Your stress buster (Sliding the cover up and down all

Momentum. Remember that iconic scene from Magadheera? Kala Bhairava fights 100 soldiers and yells, “Send 100 more, Sher Khan!”. That’s momentum. When you keep moving, it’s like a snowball rolling down a hill - bigger, faster, unstoppable. It’s way easier to keep going than to start over.

When someone asks, “Do you like exploring ML & AI more than Linux device drivers?” it’s okay to say, “I don’t know.” Some things excite us, some leave us puzzled. But you don’t need to rate each and everything. Sometimes, just experiencing is enough. Explore your curiosity,

I shared a patch to fix a bug and it fixed two. Happy me 😄 But after a few weeks, the second bug reappeared. Sad me 😦 What went wrong? I made the wrong behavior go away, but I didn’t really fix the bug. It’s easy to patch things up

Happiness is a finicky thing. The one who is happy, is just happy. He doesn’t try to be happy - he just is. The things we think will make us happy often don’t. And most of the time, it’s the little things that truly make us happy.

Storage Almost Full. I used to get this notification a lot. And when that happens, you have two choices: free up space or buy more. But the truth is: No amount of cloud storage will ever satisfy you. In Italy, there’s a saying: “la coperta è corta.” It means,

A fancy way of saying that no matter what happens, your happiness will always settle back to the same level. As an engineer, it’s easy to keep chasing the next big thing - learning new languages, trying out the latest tools, or switching fields just because they seem exciting.

TeQ Day. You’ve got your project to show off. Exciting, right? You explain it to folks... again... and again… 1st try: You’re on fire. 2nd try: Still smokin'! . . . (Me, scratching my head ) . . . 17th try: You no longer want to live… Huh! Not really. Here’s the lightbulb

Confidence doesn’t come from knowing everything. It comes from knowing what you know— and accepting that there will always be gaps. That’s why the default matters. In code, it’s the safety net. When assumptions fail, when inputs don’t match expectations, when reality throws something you didn’

Look around for a moment. The world you see isn’t just what’s in front of you—it’s how you frame it. How do you make sense of things? What catches your eye? How do you choose to respond? Take rain, for example. It can stop you from

In Linux, nice guys (tasks) finish last. Literally. On systems supporting multiple runnable tasks, each task is assigned a priority. Higher priority runnable tasks get CPU before the lower priority ones and tasks with the same priority get CPU in a round robin way. Linux uses separate priority ranges for

Always maintain a 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 (𝗦𝗦𝗢𝗧). It means 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲. This concept can save you a lot of headaches. Here’s what it looks like in practice: APIs: Keep a single, authoritative document for all your APIs. Learning: Use one central database for all your knowledge on a specific sub

Despite the BingChat Notebook's generous 18,000 character limit, I continue to use the classic version, which supports only up to 4,000 characters. Why? The simplicity of pressing 'Enter' to search feels right, while the 'Shift + Enter' required in the Notebook disrupts my

When I was a child, I once asked my dad, "When is the best time to plant a tree?" He told me, "Twenty years ago." Back then, I could barely grasp the concepts of time and the significance of a tree. Yet, few had the foresight

How do you know if you're not being authentic to yourself? Pay attention to how preoccupied you are with competing against others. That's a sign you're brewing the wrong potion – the "comparison concoction." A recipe guaranteed to taste like disappointment. Competitiveness becomes

You’re a monkey who loves bananas. The forest is so fork-in' big. You observe the forest and try to stay in areas with more bananas. But there's a problem. The forest has plants that look like bananas but aren't. Social media is that forest.

Boy find a good article. Boy want to read. Boy no time now. Boy bookmark it or boy read later. Boy confused. We've all been there. Reality is, most of those saves are less likely to be resurrected than an ancient pharaoh. If you're going to

Perhaps not. Devices generate interrupts to seek the processor's attention. Controllers routes the interrupts to the appropriate CPU core. Just like the iconic Charon of the Continental (PS. Don’t tell me you never watched John Wick!). Ring ring, hello yes? Mr. Processor, I have an urgent telegram

Specialization used to be the golden rule, but the game has changed! Mere expertise in a single skill is no longer enough to thrive. You must become the modern multifaceted expert. You need to 𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 "𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑒” - 𝑎 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑔𝑎𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘. Think of it as putting t

If you are a developer, you are an Influencer. And you need to know this. Consider these scenarios: Musicians vs. Listeners (Music) Seeders vs. Leechers (Torrents) Teachers vs. Students (Education) Writers vs. Readers (Writing) Pause. Think for a while. What do you see? An imbalance. What do these imbalances reveal?

But I’m not the kind of lazy who lies in bed all day, forming a black hole on Instagram. I'm talking about the kind of lazy where you're always looking for ways to optimize your life, be more efficient and less repetitive. I'm

Software ages like fine Wine (or Cheese) depending on your code. To illustrate this, here is an incident that happened this week. I created a directory named soc:qsfp_0 in my Linux VM, but when I viewed it from the Host Windows Explorer, it had transformed into the cryptic

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Our mind is like a chain, and just like a fragile link in a necklace, the weakest point can determine whether we'll sparkle or snap in tough times. That's why it's so important to

The relentless rhythm of the clock can feel like a weight on our shoulders. Sometimes, we might feel like we're working hard and spending a lot of time, but not making any progress. Other times, we have a tight deadline and somehow manage to get everything done, even

Mjölnir is not just a tale from Asgard. It's a reflection. Each line of code we write, each problem we solve, and each innovation we bring to life is our way of wielding the Mjolnir. As we wrap up #engineersday , remember that you, as an engineer, are worthy

Here’s a little mindset shift that has truly simplified my decision-making process. Let's start with what we already know. As a Software Engineer, we input data, commands, and configurations into our embedded systems. Whether it's designing device drivers, coding kernel modules, or configuring system parameters,

What did you learned from the voyage of Chandrayaan-2 to Chandrayaan-3? What ISRO reiterates by setting the line of hope so high? By making India to become the fourth nation to set foot on the moon and the first at the south pole? Life got two shades. Just like the

Which one is it that you're holding? iPhone 12, 13, or 14? Here is why I chose to be the anomaly with an Android. Lately, it's been hard to ignore the wave of iPhones sweeping through the crowd. As I glance around, it's becoming

If you take a screenshot in grayscale mode, how will it look? Grey or Colorful? Even monochrome worlds hold rainbows. I wanted a grayscale cover image to match the theme, while creating the post about taming social media. After activating grayscale mode, I snapped a screenshot expecting moody monochrome tones.

When was the last time you consumed something? Probably last hour. But when was the last time you created something? . . . ? Feel that void. The void between consumption and creation. It's a gap that many of us overlook. I had this wrong assumption - reading more would somehow unlock

That's the wise saying that I often remind myself of, when I’m feeling overwhelmed by my to-do list. I have so many interests, and they seem to grow faster than Barry Allen day by day, from storytelling to mastering Da Vinci Resolve and beyond. But I realized

Yes, you heard it right. You are not Uranium 235 to stay active day in and day out on social media. Don’t just simply dissipate your time and energy. Here’s what I do: Using focus mode. You can choose which apps are allowed to send notifications and which

Just finished the 90th episode of One Piece! What’s so special? In a world where time feels scarce, I set myself a challenge. I wanted to enjoy anime without losing control of my time. My solution: only one episode a day. Why I Started I began this journey on

Little did I know that this seemingly ordinary morning would present me with an unforgettable encounter that would shake me to the core and leave a scar mark on my soul. A chaotic day. The resonating sound of something falling jolted me awake a little earlier than usual. In the